Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 23:07 Post subject: SVN Trac registration broken
I'm trying to sign up to post an issue on Trac, I go to svn.dd-wrt.com/register, I enter all the fields and hit submit, it returns a page with Recaptcha - which is fine, but there is no "submit" button anywhere, so I fill in the Recaptcha data then press "enter" hoping the default form will submit, it does, but then it just returns the following error:
Trac Error
Submission rejected as potential spam
I ran through it a couple times, I'm positive I'm not screwing up the captcha.. can someone else confirm, and/or please fix?
I did that, see the OP "there is no "submit" button anywhere, so I fill in the Recaptcha data then press "enter" hoping the default form will submit, it does, but then it just returns the following error..."
Yes, this is really bad. DD-WRT will lose a lot of credibility because of this. A lot of users are frustrated because of this and some (including myself) have moved on to OpenWrt, unfortunately... _________________ THERE ARE NO STRANGERS HERE; ONLY FRIENDS YOU HAVEN'T YET MET.
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I suspect that too many new users, who simply don't know how to set things up properly, or the limitations, or how things work, are reporting "bugs" for random builds that are clogging up the process with what "they" see as a bug and just have to be dismissed. There is a build thread for each build in the broadcom forum, and I have seen a similar thread in the atheros forum.
You can use those build threads to report bugs in recent builds, which are the only builds for which bugs are relevant. The moderators do review these reports and can then assess which should actually be dealt with as bugs. _________________ SIG:
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LOM: "If you show that you have not bothered to read the forum announcements or to follow the advices in them then the level of help available for you will drop substantially, also known as Murrkf's law.."
I suspect that too many new users, who simply don't know how to set things up properly, or the limitations, or how things work, are reporting "bugs" for random builds that are clogging up the process with what "they" see as a bug and just have to be dismissed. There is a build thread for each build in the broadcom forum, and I have seen a similar thread in the atheros forum.
You can use those build threads to report bugs in recent builds, which are the only builds for which bugs are relevant. The moderators do review these reports and can then assess which should actually be dealt with as bugs.
Good luck to those who try this ! BrainSlayer barely considers anything that even existing (longtime) active users are reporting on trac. Let alone looking at so-called "reports" on the forum threads... lol. But I guess you already knew that. _________________ THERE ARE NO STRANGERS HERE; ONLY FRIENDS YOU HAVEN'T YET MET.
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I do know that Kong does review information on the Broadcom forum, and does try to respond to obvious issues. _________________ SIG:
I'm trying to teach you to fish, not give you a fish. If you just want a fish, wait for a fisherman who hands them out. I'm more of a fishing instructor.
LOM: "If you show that you have not bothered to read the forum announcements or to follow the advices in them then the level of help available for you will drop substantially, also known as Murrkf's law.."
I do know that Kong does review information on the Broadcom forum, and does try to respond to obvious issues.
OK, so should I buy Broadcom now ? DD-WRT development is, for all intents and purposes, a 2-guy job, with Kong being rarely active in the actual code development. So for the rest of us, non-Broadcom users, this is basically a 1-man job. Since that man (BS) is practically inactive on the forum (because he is for the last year or so AFAICT), and if non-registered users can't register on trac, then please tell me how can they reach this dev and make themselves heard ? I mean, practically, how do they do that ? I personally can't even manage to get my PMs to be read by him, and forget about receiving a response to any questions I have. I already tried that road, no go. And I'm not a new DD-WRT user and neither am I inactive. I post daily, as you can check, and I try to write no-nonsense. So is there a way out other than OpenWrt ?... because I'd really like to know. _________________ THERE ARE NO STRANGERS HERE; ONLY FRIENDS YOU HAVEN'T YET MET.
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OK, so should I buy Broadcom now ? DD-WRT development is, for all intents and purposes, a 2-guy job, with Kong being rarely active in the actual code development. So for the rest of us, non-Broadcom users, this is basically a 1-man job. Since that man (BS) is practically inactive on the forum (because he is for the last year or so AFAICT), and if non-registered users can't register on trac, then please tell me how can they reach this dev and make themselves heard ? I mean, practically, how do they do that ? I personally can't even manage to get my PMs to be read by him, and forget about receiving a response to any questions I have. I already tried that road, no go. And I'm not a new DD-WRT user and neither am I inactive. I post daily, as you can check, and I try to write no-nonsense. So is there a way out other than OpenWrt ?... because I'd really like to know.
I am not trying to start a debate with you or make any suggestions of what you should do. However, I have seen that a LOT of developer time in the past was spent dealing with NOOBs who think that they have stumbled on something (not suggesting that this is you) and expect that their misinformation, posts or PMs should be responded to personally by the developers, among the thousands of users who might wish their attention. In other words, trac should not be a vehicle to explain things to noobs that they lack the technical ability to understand, simply because they happen to see something as a bug and are given a method (TRAC) to demand attention to their (often non-) "issue".
And while Brainslayer might not be active in the forums, he is certainly active in doing what he does best, which is developing code for firmware that is available free for you to choose to use.And since he is not charging you for what he does, he is, IMO, fully entitled to set the terms of what he chooses to do, and how he chooses to do it.
And all of this is speculation. It could be that trac registration is just broken. _________________ SIG:
I'm trying to teach you to fish, not give you a fish. If you just want a fish, wait for a fisherman who hands them out. I'm more of a fishing instructor.
LOM: "If you show that you have not bothered to read the forum announcements or to follow the advices in them then the level of help available for you will drop substantially, also known as Murrkf's law.."
